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Thursday, September 13, 2012
It seems a shame that it is equally impossible that Alan Moore will ever write for Booster Gold as it is that Jack Kirby will rise from the dead to draw him.
Last week's poll question: Which legendary writer/artist duo would you have liked to see collaborate on Booster Gold? (42 votes)
After last week's poll exercise in the classics, let's go back to the future!
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xingyiquan posted on Sep. 13, 2012 at 5:14 PM
NO, believe me bro I'm not excited about the New Universe, it's a marketing gimmick meant to draw in the people who don't like comics, but only alienated the actual fans who love this stuff.
Flashpoint was pretty much crap and the new 52 is even worse.
I was just enjoying the first well written issue of JLI, by Johns. It had some interesting elements and some clever scenes. Jurgens is incapable of pulling that off, he is trying to be a sincere Stan Lee and post 1980's that's not gonna cut it.
Again, I'm a big booster fan but DC is ruining their own list by cutting off the continuity that the fanboys like me love.
Marketing consultants told them to expand their brand and get into USA Today with their stupid reboot. It will shoot them in the foot just like they deserve.
As for Booster, it's nice to see they are bringing the time travel element back that was so well used in 52 and 52 pick up. That was booster at his best, at least his best since the JL with beetle and geffen.
Again, please keep up the good work on the blog!
XYQ
deusex2 posted on Sep. 16, 2012 at 1:23 AM
After NuDC screw up, even Sci-Fi The Arrow looks promising. I can't wait for it start, less then half a month!
And I can't wait for it fail so that they move on with Booster Gold series! Because you just can't go wrong about Gold ^_^
Eyz posted on Sep. 17, 2012 at 6:14 AM
Syfy has Booster Gold. But it's on the CW that Arrow will air!
Syfy: Warehouse 13, Eureka, Haven, Alphas..
CW: Smallville, Supernatural
Now the same channel!
Just point out :P
Thursday, September 6, 2012
It's been a week, and I'm still pissed off about how bad Justice League International Annual #1 was.
Last week's poll question: Did you enjoy how Justice League International Annual wrapped up the series? (43 votes)
But enough about the present. Let's return to the topic of three weeks ago: classic artists. How you feel about the classic writer/artists teams? Each of the following pairs created an iconic hero with a discernible style.
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Eyz posted on Sep. 7, 2012 at 5:46 AM
I'm voting "The Man" and "The King" :P
I'm kinda sad that Stan Lee never actually got to reimagine him part of the whole "Imagine Stan Lee's" Elseworld books for DC actually..
xingyiquan posted on Sep. 12, 2012 at 1:18 PM
Wow I couldn't disagree more.
I've been reading Booster Gold since issue #1.
Dan Jurgens has been a poor writer, full of cliches and lameness.
The 1000 was his only decent bad guys.
Who are booster golds rogues gallery? Name the bad guys created by Jurgens to challenge booster? That weird mini alien that killed Goldstar (HORRIBLE IDEA BY THE WAY!)
His superman vs booster arc was actually pretty cool and has been used well since then.
But really, who is booster's nemesis? Two full Booster Gold series and no actual nemesis this is pathetic! Backlash the guy with the whips? The weird evil wizard during the time travel miniseries? God Jurgens pisses me off!
Now, after a boring, formulaic, phoney JLI series gets rightfully cancelled ( I collected the entire Geffen series from the old days and it was far superior)this Annual was the best issue of the whole run.
The anti-Occupy story where Jurgens made up Breakdown and his lame pals, with the most overt politicized right wing nonsene was simply horrible. The political posturing was so transparent and weak my goodness. Even my 12 year old self would have seen through the contrived drama and straw men he created. Oh yes, these anarchist protesters are destroying america, gag. I don't care his political preference but the simplistic and childish approach he took was yet another reminder of why I can't stand Jurgens immature, uncompelling and simply boring writing.
And yet I've read every issue of every Booster Gold comic ever published just about!!
Am I crazy or what?
Now on to the Annual. I realized halfway through that this was NOT a jurgens book, because it was clever, interesting, compelling and had some very cool ideas in it.
I loved how Guy was complaining and mad at booster, the reader is thinking that Guy is just doing his normal cranky pants thing. But then it turns out he was right and Booster WAS full of it. That was cool!!!!
I loved how The Olympian was such an arrogant bastrd!! Had me cracking up. Jurgens can't write that self-mocking tone, he is so straight laced and fake posturing trying to write a 60's style sincere comic he has no nuance whatsoever.
I love how Batwing quit and Guy left in the first few pages. Followed by Booster declaring this is the beginning of the New justice league! That kind of ironic juxtaposition is impossible for a simpleton like Jurgens, he can't write anything but a straight good guy vs bad guy clash.
Beetle"Where is superman and wonderwoman?" in the voice of a naive youngster, revealing much about his character and being funny at the same time. That's good writing. Not just a chest puffed out Im here to save the day thing that Jurgens would have done.
I loved how it played on Boosters fake confidence and how he was scamming everyone with the best of intentions.
Compare to JLI #12 with the totally predictable sad sack booster saying I give up then being persuaded by his buddies to keep up the fight. So obvious so lame so dam frustrating!
I absolutely LOVED the arrival of the future booster lecturing his previous self. The time travel aspect of booster has been ignored throughout the series, and finally we get the most compelling aspect of booster back in the spotlight.
To give Jurgens credit, the 52 card pick up was pretty cool, and wrapping booster with Rip Hunter and the time master stuff was cool. I like that and they have to keep bringing that back to show how Booster stands out from other superheros. It's a good idea that Jurgens has consistently flubbed up but he gets some credit there for sure.
I LOVED how the future booster fails and begins to fade away, then the real booster fades too. FINALLY SOME real drama, something interseting, something to care about something to wonder about, something open ended and dangerous and compelling!!!
Not just another smash up of some lame lightweaver loser that you knew exactly how it would end.
When I saw the author was Geoff Johns I said FINALLY a decent writer. He made JLI slighting interesting for the FIRST time in the entire series. Not totally predictable and formulaic like Jurgens.
Now you hear me hating on Jurgens, but don't get me wrong. I'm a huge Booster fan since issue One and there are some ideas he's had that I really liked. Having booster be a scavenger who's powers were based on bits and pieces taken from the Legion, booster as time master, booster as self-questioning leader, etc. These are good. But as a writer he is so far behind the pack, his stuff would have been corny in the 60's and that's not a compliment.
I don't need "dark brooding edgy". Just interesting, compelling and well written work, which unfortunately Jurgens cannot do.
However he's the only writer who actually has passion for doing a booster book, and until some other guy takes him on, Booster remains only a shadow of how interesting he could be.
Where's alan moore when we need him!
Keep up the good work on the blog!
XYQ
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 12, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Quote: "FINALLY SOME real drama, something interseting, something to care about something to wonder about, something open ended and dangerous and compelling!!!"
Clearly, you're not as jaded about the state of DC Comics as I am. Glad to hear that DC does, in fact, still reach some audience who has enthusiasm for their product.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Several of you said last week's poll was a hard choice, but there was ultimately one clear winner.
Last week's poll question: If you could choose only one writer for all future Booster Gold appearances ever, who would it be? (46 votes)
Two issues ago, the Justice League International lost 4 members. Since then three new members have joined the title to replace them. With one open spot and a few other New 52 characters looking for a new home, should any of them end up in the JLI?
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CDN posted on Apr. 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Tough choice (minus Hawk and Dove). I loved Mister Terrific's series in the Nu52 and I can easily see some funny moments, even with all the seriousness going on, happening between his genius and Booster's technology. I can see him wanting to tweak it and examine it. Rock seems like an interesting fit given that as far as I can remember, the JLI has never had a gunslinger on their team. As for Static, as much as he'd be a good fit in the Titans, the JLI needs a young gun if Jaime's not there
Xylob posted on Apr. 12, 2012 at 3:47 PM
None of the above.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM
Oh, Xylob, you're such a buzzkill. I see now why they call you "the Destroyer."
Grimmy posted on Apr. 13, 2012 at 6:27 AM
Sgt Rock, just for strangeness sake
Thursday, April 5, 2012
If you change Booster Gold to make him popular, isn't the newly popular character no longer Booster Gold? At least, that's what decades of tween-friendly Disney movies have been preaching to me.
Last week's poll question: Would you rather that Booster Gold remain an obscure character with his current personality and powers intact, or that Booster Gold gain more mass appeal even if it meant changing the character? (41 votes)
As webmaster here at Boosterrific.com, I'm of the opinion that there are three main camps of Booster Gold fans. The first group is most loyal to the work of character creator Dan Jurgens. Jurgens' work tends towards the serious, if somewhat routine and unspectacular aspects of heroics. His characters and adventures are believable and grounded, using naturalism to create the belief that his heroes could be living in a real world.
The second group came to the character as fans of the original Justice League International, and therefore are attached to the outlandish situational humor of Keith Giffen. Alongside his partner J.M. DeMatteis -- who provided the dialogue to Giffen's adventures -- Giffen built Booster Gold from a competent solo hero to a team leader. Not surprisingly, fans in this group tend to be vocally supportive of Booster's partner in crime, Ted Kord.
And the third major group of Booster fans were brought in as disciples of Geoff Johns. Johns' dialogue is witty and his tendency towards melodrama is perfectly suited for writing adventure stories full of heroics and sacrifice. Johns' stories and characters are larger than life, and his heroes are legendary myths.
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Morgenstern posted on Apr. 5, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Sorry..no..I can't decide.
Dan Jurgens: Creator and always gets Booster's character right...sadly seems to be unable, or unwilling to actually finnish plot arcs in a reasonable amount of time.
Giffen: Created the greatest Bromance of all times, before Bromances even existed...yet turns the silly up to 11.
Johns: Introduced Booster to me and "saved" him from limbo and engineered his second comming..yet it feels like he often aiming "too high" and lands short.
Harry posted on Apr. 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Seconded. Hardest pole question yet. I need time to think before I vote on this one. Nice job.
Harry posted on Apr. 5, 2012 at 12:03 PM
make that "poll"... stupid keyboard.
Xylob posted on Apr. 5, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Hear hear!
I can't choose just one for the reasons already listed.
Eyz posted on Apr. 5, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Awww, man! Don't make me make this choice!
Dan will always be my favorite...not only the creator of Booster, but a great story teller with amazing art skills. The master for "Time Masters" adventures.
Giffen & DeMatteis...well, I love all crazy stories by Giffen! I'm a big Ambush Bug and Heckler fan! And when he brought that sitcom/comedy dynamic to Booster and the rest of the JLI..let's just say that will always be my favorite run/title as far as superheroic team comic books go.
Johns? I love Johns' own characters and epic stories..but I'll take both previous options over the man..
(Can't we have some more diverse options like Dan+Giffen, all three, etc.? No? 'kay, just kidding!...)
Mmmh... I'll vote later this week!
Russ Burlingame posted on Apr. 5, 2012 at 5:52 PM
It's Dan for me, in no small part because of the "for every story, ever" clause. I'm confident that Dan would never get bored with Booster and do something insane (as Geoff would) or jump the shark and damage the character while trying to make some larger point (as Keith would), so in spite of loving the three of them it's Dan's durability and commitment to Booster that decides it for me.
Curt posted on Apr. 8, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Hardest poll question, ever!! All three of them have their merits. I'm probably gonna go with Dan, if only for most of the reasons previously stated. But I have to acknowledge the fact that if it weren't for Giffen and Johns, Booster Gold may have been lost in limbo forever...
Harry posted on Apr. 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Reread a lot of BG back issues by all three. Johns was the one that entertained me most. That is how I voted. I would still want Dan to draw it though.
Grimmy posted on Apr. 11, 2012 at 12:37 PM
This is a tough one, I've been wondering the same thing for a while, and I'm still not sure who to choose. I agree with all of the above comments, all of those creators have their strengths and weaknesses.
I'm an old Bwahaha era fan but that was a team book (without Skeets), and I prefer Booster as a solo act (with Skeets). So,I guess I've got to support Johns for making Booster's adventures more popular than ever (even if he did sacrifice Ted Kord to do it). The inclusion of Rip Hunter as a regular supporting character was a major deciding factor.
